António Pedro Santos / Lusa
Duarte Cordeiro and Fernando Medina
Former finance minister has warned Pedro Nuno Santos that he will not be on the lists for the elections. Duarte Lamb realizes.
The former Minister of Finance Fernando Medina communicated to PS Secretary-General Pedro Nuno Santos, who does not want to integrate the lists of candidates for deputies socialists in the next legislative elections.
This position is in a note that Fernando Medina, also former mayor of Lisbon, sent to Lusa.
“I informed the PS secretary general who do not intend to join the lists of candidates to the Assembly of the Republic in the next legislative elections. personal decisionafter twenty consecutive years in which I had the privilege of performing high political functions ”, justifies the former Minister of Finance and current socialist deputy.
In the same note, Fernando Medina writes that he will be “totally committed In the PS victory in the next legislative elections ”.
“Only the PS victory will ensure a political project of development and social justice capable of responding to the needs and aspirations of the Portuguese. I will continue to maintain, as always, a active civic participation, namely within the PS”He adds.
Duarte Cordeiro realizes
Another former PS minister, who also left St. Benedict by personal decision, reacted and said he realizes Medina’s decision.
“It’s a personal decision. What do I know, It was not for lack of availability of the PS that he would not be on the lists. It is a decision that must be respected. It is no different from the decision I made two years ago. I may be the people who understand, naturally, that this decision is made, ”he said Duarte Lamb.
The former Environment Minister was on Monday in a climate panel, integrated in the review of the PS electoral program. But assured that will not be a candidate again In the elections: “I am focused on my professional life” – is a partner of Shiftify, a sustainability strategy consulting firm.
